Orienteering in Coed Berthlwyd

Our orienteering course is a great way to explore without getting lost.

Orienteering is a sport or leisure activity in which your goal is to find your way around a set of points or ‘controls’, using a specially designed map. Orienteering can be competitive or you can go round as a family just for fun. There's some great orienteering to be done in Coed Berthlwyd in North Wales.

What to do?

Firstly you need to decide your level of difficulty and download one of our maps.

There is a choice of five different maps. The easy and medium courses are suitable for those with basic map reading skills. The harder courses are for those with orienteering experience, and children should not attempt these.

For safety reasons, children should work with a partner or in small groups.

You will need a pen to write down the codes you find on the red and white markers, eg. M8T. Markers on the children’s courses have animals on them which the children can identify. You may be lucky enough to spot some real ones in the woods too.

There are numbered red circles on your map which show the position of the ‘control’ or the red and white orienteering marker.
Follow your selected course in the correct order. The start point is shown by a red triangle. To prove you have visited each control correctly write the letters in the correct box.

Once you've completed a route, compare your results with the answer sheet.